Greetings, Rostrum fans. This week’s guest? Annie Jacobsen, bestselling author of AREA 51, OPERATION PAPERCLIP, THE PENTAGON’S BRAIN, and now PHENOMENA: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATIONS INTO EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION AND PSYCHOKINESIS.

Annie is a veteran chronicler of the darker, stranger corners of national security, intelligence, and advanced technology. She’s written about the alleged UFO holding zone near Groom Lake in Utah; the rescue by the U.S. of high-ranking Nazi scientists (one of whom is the subject of...